Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Merce cunningham, John cage and others

E-motion is a software that incorporates videos and it carries effects that make projectional performances more easier to work with. So basically in the video the filmmakers are again experimenting with the projections effects and music. Well in the beginning, i was somehow trying make a connection to what Merce cunningham and John cage were doing in thier times. It was merging the sound and dance in a single piece. cage's work is itself a piece of great art and so were the cunningham school of performance. Watching the documentary in the class, many of our fellows found the sound and the dance as a contradiction to each an other in the particular piece. I think it is because we don't understand specifically whats cage's sounds wanted to say, or we may don't wana know about it. and if we do , may be dont have the certain level of understanding to absorb what he is trying to communicate. I remember the first time we saw cage performing the sound piece No.(something)...we were literally making fun out of his voices. I believe its just we dont understand it....and we dont have what it takes to understand cage, then one possesses no right to mark is at Not-art.
For those of you(including me) who dont know what merce and cage were doing...may be its just a first step to absorb this video, it works in the same pattern but with a diffrent agenda.Here the music is more understandable to understand the idea.

Here it is http://vimeo.com/9234516

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